Theodosia Bartow Prevost

Theodosia Bartow Prevost (1746-28 May 1794) was the wife of Aaron Burr. She met him while she was married to British officer Jacques Marcus Prevost, who was fighting in the American Revolutionary War in the state of Georgia at the time of their affair. She married him in 1782 at the end of the war, and she died in 1794.

Biography
Theodosia Bartow Prevost was born in 1746 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, and she was raised by a single mother. At the age of 17, Prevost married a British loyalist officer, Jacques Marcus Prevost, who was the older brother of General Augustine Prevost. She offered the use of her house, The Hermitage, to patriots while her husband was fighting on the British side in the state of Georgia, and George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette stayed at her house. Burr and Bartow had an affair during the war, and they married in 1782 a year after Prevost died of wounds in Jamaica. Bartow acted as a crucial ally and confidant of her husband while he worked at a legal practice with Hamilton in New York, and her keen observational skills and people skills helped Burr with his rise to power. She died in 1794, leaving him without his best ally as the country's parties warred with each other.